On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Odhiambo Washington <
odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Joseph Manthi <
jmanthi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Washington:
> I am not being personal, everything I have stated here is either what Shem
> has said himself and what is in public record. One thing about democracy is
> that the person in power appoints his people. When that person is off power,
> all his people are replace with those of the new "presidents" political
> persuasion. I do not see what you guys are whining about.
In the US, the person in power appoints, and the appointee gets vetted
by Congress,
which has the rights to refuse such an appointment, yes? That is democracy.
In Kenya, where noone can vet, do you still call it democracy?
That is Parliament's problem not CCK or of this forum. If the parliament does not want to exercise its prerogative to change laws that allow it to oversee parastatals who are to complain if appointments are skewed to one side. The only other recourse you and I have is to make sure that we vote the right candidate in - that is Democracy. We have a new parliament lets hope they listen to you.
BTW: If you did not know it Dr Shem Ochuodho was an MP. Did he table a motion to give the parliament powers to oversee appointment of CCK DGs?
I do not know
> Under the circumstances, the current leadership would have appointed a
> village idiot to run CCK because according to them the idiot was qualified
> and there would have been nothing wrong with that. You are listening way too
> much to the WB/IFC to be of any good to the country. This guy has worked in
> CCK - as someone else has stated. He probably knows more about deregulation
> and ICT than 90% of the subscribers to this list - me and Shem included -
> because deregulation is an economic concept. I expect him to lead the CCK
> into the right direction.
>
> Having some ICT knowledge does not make you a good Regulator Manager. The
> problem with people complaining too much is that their audience stops
> listening.
>
> Give the guy a chance and stop whining about who should and who should not
> have been appointed.
So according to you, the status quo is equally good?
Then surely, I believe you are wrongly in this list, which seeks to
establish changes by
coming up with policies that can see this country move to the next level!
You are reverting back to stone age arguments.
This is a political argument. I do not know the new guy, so neither do you. And therefore you do not know his capability. Give him a chance to prove himself. After all I am sure the full cabinet including the PM's office was in on the appointment. Did they raise hell because of his appointment? No. They obviously know something you or I do not.
Again - from studying places where Regulation and Deregulation has happening - you do not need an "informatician" - whatever that is - to run an ICT house or a regulator.
An example:
- Steve Ballmer can't write a single line of code
- Ratan Tata probably does not know what an RJ45 cable is
- To name a few
These two guys are running some of the best run ICT companies in the world
Joe
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